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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Lying Mind People
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity

If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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